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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by codingdave on Sunday November 26, 2017 @08:51PM (#15784258)
Why did you ask what people did before Facebook, if your intent was simply try to discredit a genuine response with statistics?

Do the math. 17 hours per day with the TV not turned on. And even the hours it was on doesn't mean the whole family was watching. Let also consider how many people watched the news every night, and stayed up for Carson. And an hour of TV after school was probably the norm. Soap operas also were popular in the 80s. Tack on an hour of MTV somewhere in the day, and that just about accounts for the average even before we consider how we spent our evenings.

There was plenty of time for all kinds of things.

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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by rock_hard on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:54AM (#15785371)
Not if you discount 8h for sleeping!

Then you only got 16h left...minus 7h of watching TV leaves 9h...most people work 8h and in 1985 had a 40m or so commute to work...if you are still counting: we just hit about 0!

Sorry...that’s how statistics work. That not to discount cute edge cases of families playing cards with their neighbors and having ice cream...it’s just not the reality for the majority of the population :(

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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by codingdave on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:18AM (#15785660)
You are thinking per person. The statistic is per household.
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